Comment 44864

By downtown mythology (anonymous) | Posted August 05, 2010 at 02:26:12

So by "Chris Angel's" thinking, if I invest then I can tell everyone else where the stadium should go? Well a lot of public money is going into this and as part of the "public" I don't want more greenspace hacked up in the suburbs for a stadium i will never go to when there is a perfectly good and more accessible spot at the West Harbour that will not only reuse space but help clean up a much maligned and neglected part of our city.

The problem is and I bet Mr. Young is included, there are many who have never set foot downtown let alone our north end due to a severe lack of actual knowledge of the area combined with many false and overblown stories regarding the nature of the area.

I took some coworkers to a pub downtown after having dinner at a local restaurant not so long ago and many reacted in fear as we walked from one location along 2 blocks to the other as they had never beeen downtown at night. nothing happened of course but they all grew up in "suburban Hamilton" and grew up on overblown stories of how depressed and dangerous downtown is. Needless to say both the dinner and drinks later were great and the only harm that occured were some hangovers the next morning and the retreival of a couple of cars the next day due for safe driving reasons!!

A night like this could easily follow a ticat game at West Harbour but not at the east Mountain site.

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